TSK · Acts 27:38

But Satan answered the LORD,“Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life!

The sailors were so afraid that each cried out to his own god and they flung the ship’s cargo overboard to make the ship lighter. Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold below deck, had lain down, and was sound asleep.

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

The next day, because we were violently battered by the storm, they began throwing the cargo overboard,